Re: Parameter Modes, In In Out and Out

[John English <je@brighton.ac.uk>]

mark_lundquist@my-deja.com wrote:
> In article <93encq$brm$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
>   dmitry6243@my-deja.com wrote:
> > IMO both MD and MI are a rigid must,
> > just because they are closures of the concepts of having a dispatching
> > parameter and of having a base type.
> 
> How does being the "closure" of a concept in the language make it
> a "rigid must"?

Indeed. Java has to be rejected (no MI); presumably C# too (I read
the docs once, then couldn't find them again despite mighty searches
of the MS website, but the impression was "oh, just like Java" :-);
C++ squeaks(*) in with MI but no MD; that leaves... hmmm... CLOS sounds
a bit like "closures", don't you think? ;-)

(*) Ceci n'est pas un Smalltalk.

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